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Netflix’s cheaper, ad-supported tier has reached 70 million global monthly active users two years after it was launched. The company said Tuesday that more than 50% of its new sign-ups are for ad-supported plans in countries that offer the option. Netflix said it continues “to see positive momentum and growth across all areas of the business,” adding it has seen “steady progress across all countries’ member bases.” Netflix launched the option in November 2022 as one of its responses to a slowdown in subscriber growth. Recently, subscriber growth hasn’t been an issue. Last month Netflix reported it added 5.1 million...

"I really wanted to shed a positive light on Jewish culture"Nobody Wants This creator Erin Foster has defended the show after it was criticised for its negative portrayal of Jewish women. The new Netflix romantic-comedy series, which centres on a relationship between a rabbi (Adam Brody) and a sex podcaster (Kristen Bell), has come under fire since its release on September 26. In response, Foster said the show’s goal was to “shed a positive light on Jewish culture from my perspective”. Among the critics was Glamour senior west coast editor Jessica Radloff, who published an essay titled ‘Netflix’s Nobody Wants...

Netflix cancelations have reportedly spiked after the streaming platform’s CEO Reed Hastings announced he’d donate millions to Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign. Netflix’s rate of cancelations nearly tripled in the United States after supporters of former President Donald Trump called for action against the streaming giant following its CEO’s donation to Harris, according to a report by Bloomberg.

Scheduled for a Netflix launch on September 18 is a new docu-series from billionaire eugenicist Bill Gates that pushes the notion that “we have to give up hydrocarbons almost entirely,” among other anti-human ideas. Because the climate is currently not to the liking of Gates and his acolytes, major changes are needed to stop the human herd from living – all “for the planet.” Even though he jaunts around the world in his own climate-polluting private jet, as do Netflix’s executives, Gates feels as though humanity needs to be muzzled and confined as people’s carbon footprint is tracked, monitored and...

An upcoming Netflix docuseries from Bill Gates is pushing many of the billionaire’s pet causes, including climate doomsaying, with Gates lecturing viewers at one point that “we have to give up hydrocarbons almost entirely.” Never mind that Bill Gates’ carbon footprint is many times the size of the average American’s and that Netflix itself has maintained its own private jet. What’s Next? The Future with Bill Gates, which is set to begin streaming September 18, also addresses a host of other causes near and dear to the billionaire’s heart. “Misinformation,” artificial intelligence technology, and income inequality are just a few...

MRC Business took a trip down memory lane to illustrate why Netflix co-founder and Executive Chairman Reed Hastings’ multimillion-dollar support for Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidency is about as cringy as it gets. The Information reported July 23 that Hastings gave a whopping $7 million donation to the leftist Republican Accountability PAC to bolster Harris’ candidacy, “his biggest donation ever in support of a single candidate.” Hastings boasted of his newfound enthusiasm to The Information for the 2024 election after President Joe Biden withdrew from the race, “‘After the depressing debate, we are in the game again.’” But this isn’t...

The streamer's co-founder and executive chairman had earlier come out against Joe Biden after the president's poor performance in the first debate. Reed Hastings has come out big for Kamala Harris, cutting the vice president’s 2024 election campaign a check for $7 million. The Netflix co-founder and executive chairman revealed the massive donation to the tech-focused site The Information on Tuesday. “After the depressing debate, we are in the game again,” Hastings told The Information. He added that it was the largest donation he had ever given to a single candidate. Earlier this month, in the aftermath of Joe Biden’s...

Netflix's billionaire co-founder who's one of the Democrats' most generous donors has called for Joe Biden to drop out of the presidential race. Reed Hastings, 63 is asking Biden to step aside after his disastrous debate performance against Donald Trump last week. 'Biden needs to step aside to allow a vigorous Democratic leader to beat Trump and keep us safe and prosperous,' Hastings told the New York Times Wednesday. Hastings, alongside wife Patty Qullin, packed the party's coffers during the Trump era to the tune of over $20 million. They've also specifically backed Biden in the past, giving $1.5 million...

It's almost Pride Month, you guys, so you know what that means: We're about to be smacked in the face with gay for 30 days straight. But don't forget, during those other eleven months of the year, they're still coming after your kids. For instance, here's a scene from a PG-rated Netflix kids' series called Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous, a show I assumed would be okay for my kids to watch, though apparently it wasn't, cuz watch this: A show about dinosaurs running around trying to eat people and they insert a lesbian love scene! That scene comes from Season...

A new episode of the Netflix children’s show CoComelon Lane shows a small boy dressed in a tutu and tiara dancing for his two gay dads. CoComelon Lane, a spinoff of the wildly popular animated CoComelon series, was released on Netflix on November 17. The show, which is geared toward toddlers, exploded on Netflix, quickly becoming the #1 kids show on the streaming platform.

This Fiery "Arcane" Romance Illuminates Why so Many People Won't Date or Befriend Trump Supporters

The real fact It's amazing how Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose continues to be in news 60 years after his disputed death. In a way, this has been in defiance of successive Indian governments who would rather the people sidelined him as they did. A recent BBC online poll put named Bose the third greatest-ever leader in South Asia after Jinnha and Gandhi. Strikingly, as per the same poll, the stalwarts like Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi and the inimitable Atal Bihari Vajpayee don't even blip on the radar anymore. The coming months will see Subhas making a comeback of a sort....

The Secret That Changed The Course of History! In his free-time, Superman masquerades as a reporter. Batman pretends to be a millionaire playboy. Captain RibMan, however, is the President. Yes, the President, George W. Bush. Think about it. Haven't you wondered why President Bush is basically unavailable after dark? You've been told by White House sources the President likes to turn in early-- in bed by 9 p.m. Right. And what about his on-going struggle with the English language? Ever thought English might be the President's second language? Now you know why he's not an avid reader of books. At...